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Gasping for breath, the body still battling for life.
Life is difficult enough without Meryl Streep movies.
You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.
Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
You don't run out on people; you run out on yourself.
It may be normal, darling; but I'd rather be natural.
But it's Sunday, Mr. Bell. Clocks are slow on Sundays.
Oh Jesus God we did belong to each other. He was mine.
I hated Hemingway. I liked Faulkner but he was a bore.
New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water.
I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.
Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
Wrinkles and bones, white hair and diamonds: I can't wait.
When I'm writing, I never write more than four hours a day.
I just live one day at a time. That's my new theory in life.
The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
There’s got to be something wrong with us. To do what we did.
Leave it to me: I'm always top banana in the shock department.
It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing.
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
we don't belong to each other: he's an independent, and so am I.
I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
Actually, I think friendship and love are exactly the same thing.
One always likes one's latest book best. That's a natural feeling.
She had only one flaw. She was perfect, otherwise whe was perfect.
Writing in the first person automatically gives you a point of view.
Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.
I'll pay you a million dollars if you tell your life story for true.
Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
Oh, I adore to cook. It makes me feel so mindless in a worthwhile way.
My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.
Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.
Brazil was beastly but Buenos Aires the best. Not Tiffany's, but almost.
[T]he army of wrongness rampant in the world might as well march over me.
Mick Jagger moves like a parody between a majorette girl and Fred Astaire.
It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
I've tried to believe, but I don't, I can't, and there's no use pretending.
Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.
That's all a writer has to write about - what he sees and hears and what not.
If you can't be friends with a lover, then forget it. It's not going to work.
I'll never get used to anything. Anybody that does they might as well be dead.
Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
Every day is a new day with me. All holds are off. All contracts are forgotten.
I've never worked for a newspaper. I've had some very bad reviews in newspapers.
Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.